Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 22:21:16 GMT From: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@nojunk.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re: Newbie has a lot of questions - APM, ASUS mainboard and Pentium III Message-ID: <20000111.22211600@bartequi.ottodomain.org> References: <20000111.8533800@bartequi.ottodomain.org>
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Dear readers,
I am afraid that John was somehow right.
I appear to have discovered a minor bug, which seems to have "ethical"
connotations, so to speak.
If I boot just after a "shutdown -p now", I get a "WARNING: /
was not properly dismounted" error.
I have investigated the problem just a little.
The result is surprising: AFAICS, the error only occurs when I issue
"shutdown -p now" *immediately* after my login. If I do anything
requiring a little "syncing disks", like opening a few windows or
saving a few files, NO error is displayed at the subsequent boot.
I would never have noticed it if John had not set me thinking. In
fact, I usually perform quite a few tasks on my system.
I confess that I even find it difficult to call it a proper bug ...
My platform is much like John's:
ASUS P2B-F AGP motherboard, Pentium III 450MHz, 384 MB RAM etc.;
FreeBSD 3.3-Release: kernel options:
options "VM86"
device apm0 at isa?
Incidentally, at boot time, two short messages are displayed about
BIOS basemem and extmem (64MB), the latter not corresponding to (RTC)
RAM (384MB). These messages are not logged in /var/log/messages,
either. AFAICS, the OS sees my real memory (correctly indicated) and
simply *ignores* what the BIOS extmem reports. Somehow, the OS
considers the two "BIOS" messages even NOT worth logging ...
Apart from this curious little anomaly, my system seems to work with
no problems. All of my RAM is seen (real memory=3D393216K bytes) and
used. On the other hand, I reproduced the above-described situation
(shutdown -p now just after a login) for testing purposes only.
Normally, "shutdown -p now" gives rise to no boot errors on my system.
Finally, AFAIR, no such errors have occurred under R.H. Linux 6.1.
Evidently, FreeBSD does NOT tolerate laziness ... ;-)
Best regards
Salvo
N.B. myjokingdomain =3D=3D=3D> neomedia.it to e-mail to me.
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